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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-09

MIN @ DET

Home plate: Lance Barksdale

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.8% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, MIN
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 181 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 177 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Josh Bell — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼5 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Colt Keith vs Eric Orze
  2. 2+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Trevor Larnach vs Troy Melton
  3. 3-0.09▼2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Riley Greene vs Taj Bradley

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Josh Bell — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Luke Keaschall — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.